Daggle-tail

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(archaic) A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
2. (obsolete, often used attributively) Clothes that are filthy at the bottom from dragging through the mud.

Example Sentences

for she was no daggle-tail I will be bound, but as neat a lass as Sarah o ' Richard's, every bit.

He co'de her a mismanner't daggle-tail, —- an ' a mawkin', — an' a daffockin', sloppety sliven, an' an ill-contrive't snicketty fussock, -an' sich like.

"Daggle-tail,” Emrys replied with a cheeky grin.

Do you have a daggle-tail's drawers stuffed in your ears?

Setting aside the dubious masturbatory potential of such passages (and thus runs the whole book) we may have to accept that this was probably not the meat-and-potatoes monologue of the averate sporting lady, daggle-tail or nymph of darkness.

Every shawlie and shabaroon, every larrikin and scut, every slut, daggle-tail, trollop and streel, frowsy old bowsies and loitering corner-boy sprawlers in caps, every farthing-face and ha'pennyboy, every gutty, gouger, louser, glugger, nudger, sharper, shloother, head, every whore's melt of them, mister-me-friend and go-by-the-wall, the dogs in the street themself—- all rascaldom wa making for Mr. Mack's tram-stop;

He shouldn't be kept waiting by a daggle-tail such as you.

Why conno yo say reet out 'at it's a pleace not fit for ony decent dot to put his head in, an' an ill-mannert daggle-tail of a woman to keep it, as I'd like to sweep out wi th' bits of a morning, an' leave her on th' muck-heap wheer she belongs?

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